Eastern Africa - End of Dictatorships

eastern Africa

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Major states, peoples, and trade routes of eastern Africa, c. 1850

East Africa. Political/Physical map: regional, elevation.

cultural and linguistic regions of East Africa

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Mengistu’s government was unable to resolve the Eritrean problem, however, and expended large amounts of wealth and manpower on the conflict while rebellion spread to other parts of Ethiopia. Similarly, Siyaad proved unable to return the Ogaden to Somalian rule, and the people grew restive; in northern Somalia, rebels destroyed administrative centres and took over major towns. Both Ethiopia and Somalia had followed ruinous socialist policies of economic development, and they were unable to surmount droughts and famines that afflicted the Horn during the 1980s. In 1988 Siyaad and Mengistu agreed to withdraw their armies from possible confrontation in the ...(100 of 13851 words)

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